Ideas

25 years ago, he wrote the book on ‘Jew vs. Jew.’ Now Samuel Freedman is seeing new and deeper divisions.

The title of a journalist’s 2000 book became a catchphrase for intramural clashes that have only gotten worse since.

Ideas

Jon Polin: Last Shabbat in my Jerusalem synagogue, I began to see our complex world anew

The father of Hersh Goldberg-Polin writes about leading services for the first time since his son was killed in captivity in Gaza.

Teen Fellowship Ideas

How being a public school student strengthened my Jewish identity

As she heads into her senior year, New York Jewish Week Teen Fellow and former day school student Renata Firestone considers the “pros” of an NYC public education.

The Zionist case for Palestinian statehood (and against fatalism)

Yosef Blau, author of an Orthodox rabbis’ letter calling out Israel, responds to his critics

I hit the Loehmann’s reopening on its first day — and experienced a Shehechiyanu moment

Jew vs. Jew rhetoric breaks hearts in a bitter internal debate about the Gaza war

Neuroscience has a name for the way so many Jews are feeling today: learned helplessness

Roman Polanski’s Dreyfus Affair movie ‘An Officer and a Spy’ finally opens in the US

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